Ashley Spear, Missouri State FFA Officer, presented a 40-year award to Ralph Ball.

Ralph Ball, Fairfax, Missouri, has been recognized by the Missouri Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association (MVATA) for his contribution to the service of agricultural education in the state of Missouri.
He received an award recognizing “40 years of dedicated service to Agriculture Education” at MVATA’s annual conference, held this summer during the Missouri Association of Career and Technical Education Conference in Springfield.
MVATA also awarded a Distinguished Service Award to Ball at the 2016 MVATA awards luncheon.
Mr. Ball represented the Northwest District Association of the organization. He is the agriculture education teacher at Craig R-III High School in Craig, Missouri.
MVATA is a professional agriculture education teacher association.